A Family Apart
10 best books like A Family Apart (Joan Lowery Nixon): The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Farmer Boy, My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941, Turtle in Paradise, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia, When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota, My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0330398326 |
Dear Gram and Grampop,
Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning Whipple being a foolish name for a duck much less a girl. I call myself Lucy now. I cannot hate California and be California. I know you will understand.
California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple...
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885386 |
Are you hungry yet?
Much of Laura's childhood was spent in near-starvation. While they always had something to eat, it was never enough for the family to be satisfied.
Thus when Laura wrote about Almanzo (her future husband)'s childhood, she focused on the most idyllic parts and what...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0590687158 |
In a diary that brings to life the dramatic happenings on the home front during World War II, Madeline Beck is living in a boardinghouse with her mother while her father is on an aircraft carrier guarding the Pacific Coast. After discovering that a German U-boat has landed near her home--a little-known,...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0375836888 |
Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple.
She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping...
It is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia.
For five years, Esther and...
| Author | Beth Seidel Levine |
| ISBN | 0439439825 |
In April of 1917, Simone Spencer's world changes. Her beloved brother Will goes off to war, and Simone seeks a way to help. The passionate daughter of a feisty French mother and a rebellious upper-class father, Simone is not cut out for the society life she is meant to lead. So, when General Pershing calls...
| Author | Barry Denenberg |
| ISBN | 0439194466 |
Blinded after a terrible accident, Bess must learn to overcome her disability with the help of new friends and skills at the Perkins School for the Blind, in the wake of America's Great Depression.
After Bess Brennan is blinded in a sledding accident, she must face a frightening, much-altered...
| Author | Marion Dane Bauer |
| ISBN | 0439220270 |
"Land of the Buffalo Bones" is the diary of Mary Rodgers, known as Polly. Promising religious freedom and fertile land, Polly's father, Reverend Rodgers, moves their Baptist community from England to the Minnesota prairie. After a treacherous journey across the sea and across this country, Polly...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0590438107 |
Originally, I picked this book up because my great- grandmother was a teenage one room schoolhouse teacher in Louisiana, and I had already read her journal and wanted to compare. What I got was somewhat satisfying.
When a fourteen year old orphan girl named Sarah Jane is almost forced to abandon...
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0439221617 |
Angela and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work, Angela must leave school and work in a shirtwaist factory. Against the backdrop of the birth of the labor...
| Author | Walt Morey |
| ISBN | 0140360352 |
I liked the idea of this book, and I really liked the first few chapters. The kids lost interest a bit through the middle, and I had to encourage them along, and then the last third of the book picked up again. I like the writing style well enough, but allow me to explain the low rating.
1. Seeing as...
